My dream is that when I search something on the web I get results 100% arranged on relevance with no commercially motivated rearranging of results. I also dream about ad free OSs, but that one came true for me back in 2005 (thanks Linux!).

My dream is a multiplayer marrio brothers on end to end en, something.

Don't let your dreams stay memes

Now it's your time to realize that dream, the timing could not be more perfect.

My dream is chilling by the pool/lake/river doing fuck all with some friends and something nice to drink (alcohol or not).

I can already realize my dream whenever the fuck I want, and AI helps 0% achieving any part of it.

"These graduates are actually both going to be a big part of driving that progress and also dealing with the impact," he added, referring to AI.

Out of context it sounds like a threat, but in connect it just sounds like vacuous CEO-speak, designed to respond to the question with some words while not actually answering the question.

They can't even fucking troubleshoot basic electronics. The less popular the product, the more likely they are to give you instructions that might kill you. Literally kill you, by the way.

I love the hubris.

Humans aren't evolved to process that much change, says a man who grew up in the 20th century. At the start war was just a scrap in a field, the most advanced piece of technology was an x-ray machine, and a major airport was a relatively flat piece of grass made for gliders made out of wood and canvas, by the end we'd had two world wars and one cold war, computers were everywhere, we had MRI machines and satellites and even a space station in orbit, and there are millions of flights a day on jet liners.

Yeah, no other human has ever lived through so much change.

These guys pretend they reinvented the Internet after they ruined it.

What a creepy thing to say. The guy pulling the strings on Ai talking about consequences lol

Luigi is an automatic upvote. Innocent though he may be. Which he is, innocent. I'm serious, the cops are full of shit, on everything, a manifesto? Gtofo of here, we all wrote that shit after, because health insurance is the devil.

Do you side with Jesus or the Devil?

Although satisfying it wouldn't really solve anything. They would just elect another CEO. They're all exactly the same anyway.

You want to really make a change you burn down the data centres, that would really hit them where it hurts.

What do you think they're scared of? People booing them?

They own the platforms.

Most CEOs are smart. They're smart in the corporate politics that keep one in such a position. They're apparently doing something right in the eyes of the board members, or they'd be fired.

They are not smart in any sense that benefits humanity. The only thing they benefit is themselves.

the "Some of you may die" speech by Lord Farquaad from Shrek would be too on-the-nose, tho.

Also to rouse and inspire them.

"I'm working on a machine that will make you guys redundant, and then I'll make those booing me see. l'll make you all see." is hardly going to do that.

He would be much better off talking about how it was the stuff of science fiction not long ago, and how the graduates would be helping to push humanity forward, and make real, things that were also previously considered impossible.

Some of the talks are also just really bad. I've seen a few, and they're little more than ads, or bragging about a thing the institution is doing that's unrelated to the graduates themselves. Saw one where the speaker was talking about how the college was using AI for various things. Why even have that in the graduates' speech?

it'll be hilarious when all this shitware collapses in on itself under the weight of the actual costs.

And the actual costs are starting to hit https://thenextweb.com/news/microsoft-claude-code-retreat-ai-cost

LLMs are really good at avoiding direct answers and spitting out words in sensible order that has absolutely no meanings.

Spoken like someone who has never used one. I guess this is the place where you can make laughably indefensible comments as long as it fits the vibe.

the leadership at a lot of companies have a very poor read on public sentiment, kind of strange given how much data they collect and how much they like to talk about how good they are at using that data.

And a lot of high level leadership at collages run in the same circles are executives at big companies. These speech events are sort of a benefit for both sides, the leadership at the collage gets to advertise what a good job they’re doing that they were able to get someone so influential to speak, and the speaker gets a sudo-academic platform to state their ideas and an ego boost from the huge in person captive audience.

A lot of them just kind of write off the discontent they see as “a vocal minority”, so when mass confronted with actual public sentiment, i do think it kind of blind sides them.

Why do these colleges keep inviting these chucklefucks to speak to the various student bodies that clearly hate them?

Because the universities are, themselves, riddled with patronage and graft. The privatization of the University systems has turned a lot of these schools into mere extensions of this or that corporate campus. And so the CEOs treat the student body like interns.

It's the next step of their indoctrination into corporate wage slaves. They were just convinced to spend tens of thousands of dollars on a half-assed degree, and now you have to set them up for the frustration of either having a terrible entry level grunt job, or no job at all.

So you send in a Captain of Industry to encourage them to enthusiastically apply their noses to the grindstone in order to reach their dreams of success.

Except people are starting to catch on to the scam, and are letting them know.

To influence their careers.

Probably to try to get some money in sponsorship. Or because they think these are the really smart guys.

American university to just weird. The university of my hometown tends to get speakers who would you would be excited to meet in the street. They had Patrick Stewart once, everyone was totally fine with him.

If you ask AI models to hallucinate what it would do as CEO, they usually say things that are environment and worker friendly, so it would be an improvement. Of course, they would train the CEO AI with nothing but Henry Ford speeches and books about the grindset.

I can definitely see LLM board members existing. They should already be gutting the PowerPoint filter management layer

It’s a natural consequence of our society which divides people into teams without any room for discourse in between. The team you’re on is always right 100% of the time, and the opposing team is full of utter and complete evil morons.

Well, think of the bigger picture. After 3-4 generations, there won't even BE consultants to clean up the mess. No one will know how to code at all. It's ALL going to be AI.

I'd like this guy to run for city counsil.

Enron CEO telling graduating class that they're the future of energy and you better get in line

I have not large doubts that he and even some people in his position elsewhere can be replaced by AI. We could save a hell lot of money and be even more productive!

Google long ago became another IBM: bureaucratic, rent-seeking and no longer innovative.

IBM has (at least had) quite a lot of clever techies too, but as an organization it's brain-dead.

I look at everyone this way who is pushing AI shit. Suspicious as fuck.

Maybe he could use some of his millions to fix those nasty ass fucking teeth

Don't let an innocent man go to jail for what that unnamed gunman did.

idk what you're talkin' about. Luigi didn't do it. He was with me the whole time.

Is this what Luigi felt before assassinating delivering justice to that health care CEO?

FTFY

how could he think people would actually buy this argument?

When you surround yourself with YesMen and hype beast sales guys, how can you not.

These statements are not meant for the graduates, they are meant for the investors

Thank you for sharing the song, that was lovely.

Quick Markdown formatting tip: In most flavours you can add 2 spaces at the end of a line to force a line break. Then you can format your block quotes a little prettier without empty newlines:

oh fuck you
and your ai
fuck you elon, fuck you sam,
fuck you sundar pichai
you said the chance
that we all die is
around 1 in 5 – was that hype?

I think he knows

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But yeah, some of these emigres still cling onto attitudes and prejudices which they then apply to even a foreign environment. In this case, screwing the millions of people having become heavily reliant on Alphabet products. And Americans now have an FBI director of Indian origin with a fuck-you-got-mine mindset.

On top of that, India in a way is a dystopia where the wealth gap is very staggering. Millions in abject poverty and literally eating from scraps, Muslims are increasingly marginalized, women of all ages almost face sexual violence. While simultaneously having nuclear weapons, a space program, and the most active homegrown industries asides from China.

wealthy indians in america comes from a rich caste from india, or from a family. thats why they are seen as "white enough"

Let's save some time and just drop a full pallet of egg cartons directly on top of him.

I hope when he gives his lecture, the students egg him on.

It would be a lot more impressive if everyone just stand up and walk away.

Probably. If their primary trait is being a visionary, having creative ideas about how the future could turn out is gonna produce the occasional hit.

The problem is usually that they're so far removed from the lives of normal people that they genuinely can't imagine our perspective anymore: They don't know what day-to-day challenges we face, how our financial worries influence our priorities, how much purchasing power we have, how that influences our price-to-payoff estimates... They also tend to be quite unconcerned with technical limitations and assume there's gotta be a way to implement whatever they cooked up.

3D TV is a great example: In theory is a fancy luxury for people for whom "regular" 2D TV isn't quite enough. In practice, the technology wasn't (yet?) ready to deliver on that, particularly in the face of the various difficulties (having to wear glasses, struggling with eye strain, health issues and so on).

The idea that consumers wouldn't jump at the chance to replace their TVs with a new, expensive and quite clearly immature technology probably didn't intuitively register with people for whom $1k is a negligible sum.

Probably CEOs in the 70’s and 80’s that predicted that computers would become ubiquitous and part of everyday life when computers were still only used by scientists, business people and hobbyists. Like Steve Jobs.

Barely veiled I would say.

Am I not getting the joke or is it just racism?

Thank you very much for saying something so funny.

Why the double quotes?

I guess a guillotine would be more cost effective than a rocket...

It definitely is a threat. Considering they are already planning on replacing entry level positions with AI they are directly attacking this new generation's livelihood.

So the fact that they get a little pushback for trying to end the cycle of employment is kind of a joke. This new generation should literally be at their throats if they knew what was good for them.

These graduates are actually both going to be a big part of driving that progress and also dealing with the impact," he added, referring to AI.

Yes. And a direct one at that.

He's on two somethings.

When he came in, Google was already out of new ideas.

"[Artificial] life, uh, finds a way"

Dude, yes, that's the first thing that came to my mind when I saw the picture! 🫪

This, btw, is one of the best uses of generative AI I've seen to date. 😆 Well played.

Yeah, it'll be like the impact on the ocean of someone taking their toe out of the water.

The next big thing won't come from Google. It's just doing portfolio management, sustaining and milking me-too products like their web apps and Google Cloud while enshittifying them, and hoping they'll get lucky with one of their many incubator projects. Odds are, they won't. They lack the agility and aren't hungry anymore.

No, we do not need to "structure society" around proliferating LLM chatbot girlfriends and robot butlers in order to have socialism. Fuck off with this "people's techbro" horseshit.

I agree with your first statement. The conundrum of who controls it is more important than anything else at this point.

I find your comment about students destroying the loom misplaced and misinformed. I am guessing you are referring to the myth of the luddites. Of course the reality is they were never against the machines, but they were against being displaced by machines without compensation. Below are their demands.

"The establishment of a minimum wage to ensure workers could sustain their families despite changing production method.

The provision of work or compensation for skilled artisans and craftsmen who had been displaced by automated machinery.

The regulation and limitation of child and women’s labor in early industrial factories.

The legal right to form trade unions, which were outlawed at the time, to collectively bargain and advocate for improved working conditions.

Opposition to deceitfully manufactured, inferior goods that were being mass-produced on automated"

I like your optimism about LLM doctors and lawyers. Unfortunately with an error rate that can sometimes approach 60% along with hallucinations LLM AI is far from ready and would cause far more problems than it would solve.

You are absolutely correct that corporations shouldn't own AI. If AI is to ever be useful and not purely a propaganda/advertising machine then corporations should not be in control of the models.

I appreciate your lofty goal of eliminating the worst people from being our masters. Unfortunately, the worst people already are in control of AI and it will likely end up just the opposite of your wishes. A tool to keep the worst people as masters.

Ai ... Ai always finds a way..